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Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of…
Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of Christ. And, 3 The Excellency of mans immortal soul. By Jeremiah Burroughs, late preacher of the gospel at Stepney, and Giles-Cripple-gate, London. Published by William Greenhill. William Bridge. Philip Nigh. John Yates. Matthew Mead. William Adderly.Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of Christ. And, 3 The Excellency of mans immortal soul. By Jeremiah Burroughs, late preacher of the gospel at Stepney, and Giles-Cripple-gate, London. Published by William Greenhill. William Bridge. Philip Nye. John Yates. Matthew Mead. William Adderly.
London: printed for Nath. Brook, 1660
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Treatise 3 › Sermon 9: The Ninth SERMON ON The Excellency of the Soul.
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Now when you come to think of salvation, that you hope to be saved, you must have recourse to such a kind of work upon you, as this; how have I felt the power of the Holy Ghost razing down old things? and how have I felt the power of God, even that power by which Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, to raise such a foundation as this is? — And upon this now follows the work of Humiliation and Repentance, that is, Godly sorrow; and so to mourn, as to have the heart to be taken from its former courses and ways, and be set upon the contrary good: — Now when the soul finds such workings of God upon it (as certainly these things cannot be, and no notice at all taken ⟨p. 331⟩of them) when the soul takes notice how God comes in with power upon it, and believes, that now surely the Lord intends salvation to me, the Lord hath laid such a ground-work upon my soul, as I dare venture all upon it, and now I have cause to hope that the hazard of miscarrying to all eternity is over. O this is that that is the joy of the Holy Ghost, joy unspeakable and glorious, when the soul upon good grounds can have hopes that the hazard of its miscarrying to all eternity is over; now, My soul return unto thy rest, 1saith such a one; so that that is the next thing, the razing down of the old, and raising up the new foundation.
Now when you come to think of salvation, that you hope to bee saved, you must have recourse to such a kinde of work upon you, as this; how have I felt the power of the Holy Ghost rasing down old things? and how have I felt the power of God, even that power by which Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, to raise such a foundation as this is? — And upon this now followes the work of Humiliation and Repentance, that is, Godly sorrow; and so to mourn, as to have the heart to bee taken from its former courses and waies, and bee set upon the contrary good: — Now when the soul finds such workings of God upon it (as certainly these things cannot bee, and no notice at all taken ⟨p. 331⟩of them) when the soul takes notice how God comes in with power upon it, and beleeves, that now surely the Lord intends salvation to mee, the Lord hath laid such a ground-work upon my soul, as I dare venture all upon it, and now I have cause to hope that the hazard of miscarrying to all eternity is over. O this is that that is the joy of the Holy Ghost, joy unspeakable and glorious, when the soul upon good grounds can have hopes that the hazard of its miscarrying to all eternity is over; now, My soul return unto thy rest,